The Peoples’ Democratic Party
(PDP) has described the declaration by former President, Ibrahim Babangida that
President Muhammadu Buhari should not seek a re-election in 2019 as apt and yet
another pointer to the fact that Nigerians across divides have reached a
consensus against President Buhari and his party, the All Progressives Congress
(APC).
The party said General Babangida’s position on the need for a dynamic,
nationalistic and development-driven leadership is a direct reflection of the
feeling and aspirations of Nigerians and completely captures the direction of
the repositioned PDP for a better Nigeria.
PDP National Publicity Secretary,
Kola Ologbondiyan, in a statement on Sunday said the fact that General
Babangida’s declaration on President Buhari is coming on the heels of a similar
declaration by former President Olusegun Obasanjo, has further vindicated PDP’s
position on the misrule of the Buhari administration and the APC.
The PDP further described as an
understatement, General Babangida’s reflection that the Buhari administration
and its APC has polluted the nation’s “leadership actuality” adding that it is
not unmindful of the yearnings of Nigerians to use the platform of the
repositioned PDP to propagate a new coalition that would return the much
desired new atmosphere in the polity by producing the president that will
acceptable to the majority of Nigerians.
The statement said in part: “It
is now obvious to all that the time has come for all Nigerians to jettison all
personal interests and divisive tendencies and rally forces under a truly
national platform as now embodied in the PDP to rescue our dear nation from
total collapse.
“In line with the new consensus
for the election of a truly Nigerian President in 2019, the repositioned PDP is
completely open as the epicenter of the much desired new broad-based political
engagement of all Nigerians in their aspirations irrespective of creed, tribe
or class.
“The repositioned PDP presents
that credible platform, re-engineered with best democratic standards for
unhindered accommodation of all interests from all parts of the country in our
collective search for a new beginning.
“We therefore urge all Nigerians,
particularly our leaders across board, to join forces with the PDP to once
again return the nation to its pride of place as a thriving economy and a truly
democratic nation come 2019.”
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